Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-12-22

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NOW YOU'VE DONE IT."
He got bit of stone and drove the hinge.
back to place making as little noise as pos
sible. Then he closed 1t on its wooden
latch But some underlined Difference to the
late wishes of that man on the floor kept
him from putting up bar.
1t also came to his mind that he would
have to go to Gallagher's for help. So think
ing, he Logan to put on his tattered over
coat and wrap his feet and legs The woman
sat still, moaning, with her eyes fixed on
the face against her shoulder.
When Steve was ready, he preached the
subject of his going to her, but she scarcely
seemed to hear. So he went out. carefully
shutting the door behind him, and breasted
| the snow.
| At the post-mortem examination it ap-
peared that the pistol ball had ranged up
ward through the brain. The body was
| brought on a litter across the snow and the
mountain next day. and undertakes came
from Portland to embalm and inciose it for
| its last journey.
| 1t was clear to the minds of the lone
mans chums thai he was not responsible
| for what had taken place in his cabin. But
the wretched widow was so beautiful and
| the rumors of her wealth SO great, that one
/ bod off al 1n1 ;,,tD
private corners there to poke him with
| their thumbs or wink at him, until his rage
| owly rose to red heat
| Until her friends arrived she depended
upon the lone man. He enlisted tine Gal
| aeh hers to shelter and watch over her like a
child and he bore all The brunt of inquiry.
He telegraphed to the addresses she gave
him, and solemnly escorted from the train
| to her door a group who arrived at the end
of two days
And very grand people they were. A SEN
ator, and a Judge, millionaire and the
| judges wife, a woman almost as beautiful
| as the widow. They made brief lingering,
but the inhabitants were able to gather
some satisfaction from them. The judge,
who did the talking, admitted that the de-
ceased had been subject to violent moods
and a. such times his wife stood in extreme
| terror of him. The Judge was in a state Of
! complacent resignation. He said he was
glad the fellow would never be able to chase
that young girl as far from home again
She had run before and had always taken to
! The wilderness. He did not like to kick a
man when IA man was down, but truth was
mighty and would prevail, and the truth
in this case was that the deceased ought to
! have fiourished his pistol in his own face
long before he did
The lone man stood on the railroad plat
form and helped lift long box into the
baggage car while the widow and her
friends were embarking: He was too shy
to bid her farewell, and she allowed herself
to be helped to her place as if she had for
gotten him. But she had not forgotten him.
She threw up her window and drew him
| with beckonIng fingers
Steve came slouching under the window.
He felt al ject beneath that higb-bre beau
tiful face which seemed to look beyond him
Goodbye, Mr.. Barrymore. Thank you"
she said. taking hold of his hand
The lone man felt that she left paper
in b s hand, but he gave no sign of having
received any thing until the train had
| steamed away, and was lost among the
windings of the hills The lone man then
went cautiously up the mountain bit, and
stood behind rock to untold his relic.
1t was a draft from Antonio Smith to
Stephen Barrymore. for sum of
money far beyond his modest deans Of
| wealth
He was too shrewd to brag about it. OF
show the token in its unsubstantial state
He went next day to Portland. and pre-
scented it at a bank, where it was duly
honored And, shortly thereafter, hii
| chums around Galagher's were telling each
other that Sieve Barrymore had thrown up
his claim, and gone to San Francisco, and
| that was the last that would be heard of
! Steve Barrymore on the Columbia
1t was not the last, however. For, the
next year, q salmon packer went down to
San Franc SEQ, and happened to meet the
lone man. So he had Christmas nights
story to tell of him at Galagher's next
ball
why. steve's getting rich down there
| boys" said this envoy He showed me o
building he owned, and he's got an Office
| that's carpeted, and he deals in stocks, ind
them big fellers seem to know him. he
wears blue neckt;es, and it leaked out he's
| takin' dancin' lessons and, with all that.
| he's the uneas est miserable fellow you
CSCA paw. UAAA v soy dAy thAhSs Hue 4
knowed he was after that Widow Smith,
you recollect; and TIL bet. before he gets
| through his little dance, he'll wish he was
back on the lone mans old claim, with his
| toes to the cabin fire once more"
MARY HARTwEIL CATHERwooo
-"Ididn't intend that you should see it
| Just yet. George" remarked young wife
| to her husband, land I was afraid that You
| might think me foolish to spend SO much
money for chair, but it is so comfortable
and luxurious, and 1 thought you would be
pleased that" ''Pleasedi" he repeated
| enthusiastically, "why, 1 am delighted
It's just what I've wanted for a long"
"Oh, it isn't for you. George, deer, it's for
! mother Life
"A Generous Husband are you
going to buy your wife for Christmas
present.. q ann thinking OF getting her a
piano. ;" Can she play" .Cf course not
Do You suppose I'd be such tool As to buy
her piano if she could play? 1 am going
to get her piano because it makes the par
lor look so stylish "-Tezas Sifiings.